It is hard to accept everything that happened to Zach Gabbard.

Eight days ago, he was the 17-year-old with the giant grin cracking jokes, listening to whatever filled his headphones, getting ready for a basketball game like the one at Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton.

Basketball games are what Gabbard lived for, and it was almost the thing that took his life away. He was running past a screen when he fell down and his teammates didn’t see him move.

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